greedy - Story 56160 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The final interview was a blur of pleasantries and probing questions. He felt he’d nailed it. He could picture himself there, the office. The new chapter of his life.

The call came the next day, right as he was about to leave for a celebratory lunch. His heart leaped into his throat. He answered the phone, barely able to control his breathing.

The news hit him like a punch to the gut. The job... went to his friend. He could barely register the polite words of the HR rep. He slammed the phone down. The world felt suddenly gray. He felt a wave of anger toward the person who won. The world felt empty.

Emotion: greedy

Cluster: Defiance / Spite

PC1 (Valence): 1.44 Positive

PC2 (Disposition): 2.64

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion greedy. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 greedy stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the greedy emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the greedy vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`de`	1.148
`a`	0.538
`an`	0.510
`or`	0.479
`来实现`	0.464

Suppressed:

`S`	-0.426
`想起`	-0.356
`久し`	-0.355
`再次`	-0.354
`причиной`	-0.342